Shattered Kingdoms

When I first checked the new golem I refused to ever touch it again because of it's limitation. Mira - are you 100% sure it's still working right because ive seen people using it for longer than they should be able to recently!

Now I also realise for many situations when on the attack the limitation is an irrelevance anyway.

It decreases every combat-oriented aspect of a character - attack speed, attack accuracy, spellcasting success rate, skill success rate, the whole bit. In addition, it is not a small decrease: It's a HUGE hit.

It also IMMEDIATELY hits everyone in a room. At least, I've never seen anyone resist it.

The only way around it is to deafen yourself: Which isn't always possible, and still cripples most characters even at that.

Or you could have a bard singing countersongs, but seriously who does that?

And to suggest they should lose the sorc NPC is just cruel. Buffs win sk, and mainly 1 sorc given buff. Whatever great cabal type skills they got they'd be [REDACTED] without a sorc.

This is the kind of feedback that is actually productive. I'll check the script to make sure it works properly. If you have a log of what you describe, please send me an e-mail.

I wasn't in the fight, and yeah, I was referring to the gnome, I don't believe I even mentioned Chrisheld? Oh well...

As for the sand golem argument, they have the drawback of having absurdly little PE, and are immune to flight - plus, of course, they are so fragile a sorc could melee them down in two rounds. That obviously does not apply to a mentor+ barb. There might be other circumstances to which I am not privy, but this wasn't a thread against that particular NPC per se, though it might seem like it.

It's about the buffing of the MCs tribunal aspect, they did fine without the sorc, the giant, and the golem. Because of their cabal skills they are completely fine with a subpar meatshield which might dish out a moderate amount of damage - it only takes up a single would-be cabal skill, and yet they are offered a GM barb, spell-ups and a magic-immune pet for that skill. There's a reason MCs tribunal NPCs were strictly limited and restricted.

And a single sorc is still a substantial improvement to warrior classes, considering gstr and haste doesn't require maintenance, and the fact that even low-level (and the sorc was ~master last I checked) gstr/haste allows the target to gain the +5 when wearing stat mods.

Remove the sorc, the giant and the golem and the MC would still be a force to be reckoned with. Yet, despite of this, more and more NPCs are added.

That sorc really doesn't affect game-balance much at all. As far as buffs you'd get from him, I think it's limited to GS, haste, and infravision. He can't cast armor, and any MCer who wants shield or invis has better options.

You can't completely resist songs of sleep, but some willpower will go a long way as far as limiting its effects. You've been pking mostly against people without enchants, right, Edoras?

People say this, but I don't think it's very accurate. Songs of sleep just own face period.

And don't underestimate the sorc: He's actually very useful on account of the GS/haste. It means that I can buff up whatever NPCs I'm using 24/7 with those two spells which make a huuuge difference in combat. You might not have realized that so much given that you could just cast it yourself .

Not to go too far off on a tangent, since I know this isn't what the thread is about, but I think bards are fine as they are. In large group pk, they need to be targetted first. Anywhere else, they're kind of useless.



This is probably true.

Which is why a bard in the MC is totally broken.

More like why you shouldn't engage a large group of MCers who are under midnight and have a bard.